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Time Out says

Directing from his own script, Levinson revels in detailed observation in this rites-of-passage movie about a college student returning home to Baltimore for the Christmas holidays in 1959, and picking up with the old gang as they try to fend off adulthood and marriage by hanging out at the local diner and talking about football, women, cars and rock'n'roll (Stern is particularly fine as the R&B buff, memorising record label serial numbers with religious awe). Not a lot to it, but the sense of period is acute, the script witty without falling into the crude pitfalls that beset other adolescent comedies, and the performances are spot-on.

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Release details

UK release:

1982

Duration:

110 mins

Cast and crew

Director:

Barry Levinson

Cast:

Paul Reiser, Ellen Barkin, Timothy Daly, Kevin Bacon, Mickey Rourke, Daniel Stern, Steve Guttenberg, Kathryn Dowling

Music:

Ival Kral, Bruce Brody

Art Director:

Leon Harris

Editor:

Stu Linder

Cinematography:

Peter Sova

Screenwriter:

Barry Levinson

Producer:

Jerry Weintraub

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  • The competition between Bacon and Guttenburg in the over acting stakes here is off the charts, truly singing for their suppers. It hasn't aged well at all, light indulgent material from a director who would go on to far better thngs.

    Ray Hyland Mon Mar 28 2011
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